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Example sentences for: purportedly

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What gives the tale what the Post calls a "Watergate-like intensity" is the news that Starr purportedly has at least 20 hours of tape recordings of Lewinsky telling a fellow federal worker, Linda Tripp, about her alleged affair and about Clinton's and Vernon Jordan's cover-up instructions.
Benex is purportedly a front for a top Russia mafioso (currently missing).
He purportedly told Jones, "Well, I don't want to make you do anything that you don't want to do."
Under strong pressure from the GOP Congress in his third year in office, he submitted a plan that purportedly would balance the budget in seven years--at the price of deep domestic spending cuts.
That dishonor, rather, belongs to Drosnin himself for publishing a work that grossly transcends even the now-discredited science on which it was purportedly based.